Author: Christy Harner

Author: Christy Harner

5 Steps to Creating Your Personal Website
If you’re not a web guru, a designer, or good at writing grammatically perfect prose, knowing you need to develop an “online presence” can be scary. But the reality is, now that you’ve figured out who...

Two weeks after I started my consulting company, I began conquering my fear of heights at Inner Peaks, an indoor rock climbing facility in Charlotte. One of my business colleagues, a scientist with big dreams like mine, asked me to be his climbing...

In order to win, we must all fail sometimes. In fact, I propose that in order to succeed, we must ALWAYS have failures first.
If you’re reading this because you want to be a big time entrepreneur, but have NEVER started a business before, I want...

So you want to be a success?
I have some good news and some bad news.
First, the bad:
It’s extremely hard to make a business succeed in the startup world today.
Sure, we know JK Rowling was a single mom and wrote a book and she made a billion...

I’m not always of the opinion that we need to forgive those who wronged us terribly. Sometimes maybe. However, I have learned that the best approach is sometimes to thank them instead. Sure, this may be a silent thank you that never reaches...

What age do you need to be to be a perfect successful entrepreneur?
I’m 32. 32 is a good age for an entrepreneur. It seems like the Gen X-ers finally think that since I’ve had a few years in my 30s, I get it now. Ive tried and failed a few times....

When I was 21, I quit my normal job and began my first “real” company. I say “real” because I had already attempted my own businesses before. One was a cake decorating business and one was a photography business.
But this one was for...

Being labeled can be frustrating.
A few years ago, I stumbled across a women focused startup lab in Silicon Valley while browsing online. I was going to be traveling to San Francisco to meet with some entrepreneurs, and was looking to beef up my West...